Postscriptum Polonistyczne follows the principles of publication ethics and publication malpractice statement mainly based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (Committee on Publication Ethics). Detailed rules of conduct are presented in COPE’S flowcharts.
Responsibilities of the Editor
- The editor holds responsibility for the decision as to which of the papers submitted to the journal will be published.
- The editor shall not consider the authors’ race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy as pertinent to the selection of the text for publication.
- The sole criteria for the selection of the text shall include:
– the submission’s relevance to the field of study and to the scope of the journal
– the submission’s originality
– the quality of the submission’s language
– the clarity of the argument
– observance of all legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. -
If the editor of a journal issue is also the author of an article published in the same issue, another editor of the current issue of the journal takes care of the submitted text.
Confidentiality
Until the moment of the admission of the article for publication, the editor and any editorial staff shall not disclose any information about the submitted manuscript to any third party other than:
- corresponding Author
- peer referees
- members of the editorial team
- the publisher
- copyeditors, proofreaders, typesetters involved in the production of the journal as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
(please, consult the PLoS Policy to identify potential competing interests)
Unpublished original material submitted to the journal shall never be used by the Editor or any party privy to the material prior to its publication (listed in the “Confidentiality” section of this document above) for their own research purposes without the author’s explicit written consent.
Plagiarism, ghostwriting and guest authorship.
The editorial office makes every effort to prevent phenomena such as plagiarism, ghostwriting and guest authorship.
Referee’s responsibilities
- The peer referee shall provide the Editors with information that will allow them to make an informed decision concerning the publication of the material.
- The peer referee shall provide the Author with relevant information allowing him or her to revise her contribution to meet the highest standards of academic quality or to improve their writing in the future.
- The peer referee shall deliver his or her review promptly or shall notify the Editor about any circumstances that prevent him or her from the timely delivery of the review.
- The peer referee shall be impartial in their evaluation of the submission.
- The peer referee shall express his or her views clearly and unambiguously.
- The peer referee shall never use ad-hominem arguments.
- The peer referee shall not use the reference to strengthen their own academic or professional status.
- The peer referee shall disclose to the Editor any conflict of interest (please, consult the PLoS Policy to identify potential competing interests). The peer referee shall decline the reference upon the discovery of any conflict of interest and shall inform the Editor about such instances.
- The peer referee shall treat received documents as confidential.
- The referee is obliged to identify insufficient identification of sources or potential plagiarism, of which cases the referee shall notify the Editor.
Author’s Responsibilities and Obligations
- Authors shall present original research.
- Authors shall offer honest and precise descriptions of their research procedures.
- Authors shall present reliable and intersubjectively verifiable data.
- Authors shall provide full and honest list of references, crediting all other researchers and other authors whose work has made the submission possible.
- Authors shall never submit contributions including fradulent data or misrepresented statements.
- Authors shall offer an impartial, methodologically sound, discussion of the data.
- Upon request, Authors shall provide raw data for assessment of the Editorial Board supported by an expert in the field represented by the contribution, and shall be prepared to make the data available publically if necessary (if laws allow it and individual, including proprietary and confidentiality rights, are not imperiled).
- Authors shall submit only and exclusively original work, duly quoting and properly crediting work of others, including works belonging to the canon of the discipline that have influenced the overall orientation of the research presented.
- Authors shall NEVER submit plagiarized work, be it a plagiarism based on uncredited translation, uncredited citation or reference to someone else’s unpublished work, or ideas knowingly harvested from others, including students, whose unpublished work remains THEIRS.
- Submitting Authors agree that plagiarism and fraud are not only crimes, but also the most degrading acts in the space of academia, and therefore shall take special care that no part of their work should leave any doubt in terms of academic honesty.
- Authors shall properly cite their sources, credit their mentors and other authors, and document their data with reliable and verifiable source references.
- Authors shall not submit material published previously elsewhere, except by explicit invitation of the Editors, who see the reprint of already copyrighted material as important to the overall concept of the issue.
- Submitting the same paper to a number of journals shall be considered unethical, therefore Authors shall not submit contributions considered for review in Postscriptum Polonistyczne elsewhere.
- Submitting material to Postscriptum Polonistyczne, Authors retain the rights to the published material.
- If their work is accepted and published, Authors retain the right to the published material, permitting the use of their work under the provisions of the Creative Commons Uznanie autorstwa-Na tych samych warunkach 4.0 Międzynarodowe (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Authorship shall be limited to Individuals who made a significant contribution to the study submitted to Postscriptum Polonistyczne, whether in terms of data, conception, methodology, or execution of research. All individuals who did perform work substantial to the contribution shall be given proper credit as co-authors irrespective of their status in the academic hierarchy, assistants and students being thus no exception.
- No uninvolved individuals shall be listed among the Authors or Co-Authors of the submission.
- All Authors shall disclose instance of the conflict of interest to the Editors, especially financial or other substantive interests that might influence the results of research or interpretation of data.
- Authors shall report any fundamental errors or inacurracies that could not have been verified by referees or editors to the Editors, requesting an erratum.
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After obtaining positive opinions from two independent reviewers, the author submits an author's declaration. In the declaration, he indicates whether the article is his original work and does not infringe anyone's rights, as well as whether it has already been published and whether the illustrative material used is his original work or whether it is in the public domain. In other cases, the author provides consent for publication obtained from the owner of the economic rights to the work. The author responds in a statement to the review obtained and declares whether he takes into account the suggestions contained in the review. If he does not take them into account, he justifies his position (attachments of the declarations available at http://wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/node/1941).
Based on: Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Procedure in the event of suspicion of plagiarism or receiving information from a reviewer about suspicion of plagiarism in the submitted article
1. The editors check the extent to which the work has been copied using an anti-plagiarism program and text comparison or analysis carried out in the text in the case of paraphrasing or self-plagiarism. The editors collect evidence;
2. If the editors find that there is no significant repetition, they inform the reviewers of their decision and continue editorial work;
3. If the editors find significant repetitions in the submitted article and other text, they contact the author, attaching a signed "author's declaration" document confirming originality/authorship and documentation regarding the finding of plagiarism.
4. If the author provides a satisfactory explanation (unintentional error, unclear guidelines of the journal, very young researcher), the editorial office contacts the author/authors and reviewers and informs about the rejection of the manuscript or the required revision, explains the position of the journal and presents the editorial office's expectations in this respect;
5. If the author provides an unsatisfactory explanation or admits guilt, the editorial office contacts the author/authors and reviewers and informs about the rejection of the manuscript or the required revision, explains the position of the journal and presents the editorial office's expectations in this respect; the editors are considering informing the author's superiors and/or the person responsible for supervising the research and/or potentially injured parties;
6. If the author does not respond and subsequent contact attempts are unsuccessful, the editorial office rejects the manuscript, contacts the reviewers and the author's institution, asking that the matter be forwarded to the author's superiors and/or the person responsible for research supervision. If the editorial office does not receive a response, it tries to contact you again every 3-6 months. If there is no response or resolution, the editorial office considers contacting other superior authorities.
Procedure in the event of suspicion of plagiarism or receiving information from a reader about suspicion of plagiarism in a published article
1. The editors check the extent to which the work has been copied using an anti-plagiarism program and text comparison or analysis carried out in the text in the case of paraphrasing or self-plagiarism. The editors collect evidence;
2. If the editors find a lack of significant repetition, they inform the reader about the results of the analysis;
3. If the editors detect a slight repetition in the published article and other text, they contact the author, attaching a signed "author's declaration" document confirming originality/authorship and documentation regarding the finding of plagiarism. The editors, in consultation with the author, publish a correction in which a link to the original text(s) will be provided if it has been omitted. The editors inform the reader about the actions taken.
4. If the editors find significant repetitions in the published article and other text, they contact the author, attaching a signed "author's declaration" document confirming originality/authorship and documentation regarding the finding of plagiarism.
5. If the author provides a satisfactory explanation (unintentional error, unclear guidelines of the journal, very young researcher), the editorial office contacts the author, explains the position of the journal and presents the editorial office's expectations in this respect. The editors inform the reader about the actions taken;
6. If the author provides an unsatisfactory explanation or admits guilt, the editorial office contacts the author and considers withdrawing the publication. The editorial office informs the editor of the second magazine involved in this case or the publisher of the plagiarized book. The editors are considering informing the author's superiors and/or the person responsible for supervising the research and/or potential victims;
7. If the author does not respond and subsequent contact attempts are unsuccessful, the editorial office considers withdrawing the publication and contacts the author's institution, asking that the matter be forwarded to the author's superiors and/or the person responsible for supervising the research. If the editorial office does not receive a response, it tries to contact you again every 3-6 months. If there is no response or resolution, the editorial office considers contacting other superior authorities.
Based on: https://publicationethics.org/files/Full%20set%20of%20Polish%20flowcharts.pdf